Two of the police department's most inept members, Officer Billie Dwyer (Erin McGinnis), left, and Detective Eric Sheridan (Dustin Nichols) are assigned to get the goods on a crooked mayor in Paul Slade Smith's "Unnecessary Farce," which opens Friday at the Helen Hocker Theater in Gage Park.

Karen Brown (Wendy Long), an accountant trying to help police investigate her crooked boss, tries to put Agent Frank (Walt Boyd), who is on the take, off the investigation in "Unnecessary Farse," playing through May 18 at the Helen Hocker Theater in Gage Park.

“Unnecessary Farce,” which opens Friday at the Helen Hocker Theater, will have all the necessary elements of farce, including multiple slamming doors, mistaken identities, sexual innuendo, frequent disrobing and plenty of confusion.

The Paul Slade Smith-penned comedy, which will be staged through May 18, with performances at 8 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays, 7 p.m. Thursdays and 2 p.m. on the closing Sunday, is set in two adjoining motel rooms. In one room, two of the local police department’s not-so-finest, the inept police officer Billie Dwyer (Eric McGinnis) and timid detective Eric Sheriden (Dustin Nichols), have been assigned the task of catching on video with a hidden camera proof Mayor Meekly (Marvin Stottlemire) has been embezzling millions from the city’s coffers.

The financial discrepancies have been discovered by the town’s new accountant, Karen Brown (Wendy Long), who has gone well beyond cooperative witness after she and detective Sheriden have developed the hots for one another. Investigation and hidden video camera be damned, these two can’t keep their paws off of one another.

Their mutual affections raise the curiosity of Agent Frank (Walt Boyd), another bumbling cop who heads the mayor’s security detail and may or may not be in cahoots with the embezzlement, which turns out to involve organized crime of a not-so-stereotypical national origin, the Scottish Clan.

The Scottish Clan’s most-feared hit man, Todd (Dan Decker), is dispatched to do a job, but he can only do so by carefully following his own modus operandi, which includes donning a kilt, bear hat and playing the bagpipes. As if the plot wasn’t convoluted enough, the mayor’s wife, Mary Meekly (Marilyn Nichols), shows up with more hidden secrets to reveal.

Reviews of other regional productions call it “two hours of nonstop laughter” and “a fast and furious new farce.”

Joanna Lassley directs the production, which contains some adult situations and may not be suitable for all audiences.

Adam Jenks designed the set and lighting, with costumes designed by Laurie Uhler. Denise Butterfield stage-manages “Unnecessary Farce,” tickets to which are $13 for adults or $11 for youths 11 and younger. Tickets are on sale at the door or in advance at the theater office or by calling 251-5990.